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| Community Tasting Notes (average 96.1 pts. and median of 97 pts. in 85 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by LB88 on 4/24/2024 & rated 93 points: 98 was good but next to the superb 07 there was no comparison. The 07 was one of the WOTN (270 views) | | | Tasted by steinersing on 4/9/2024 & rated 94 points: Intense and deep. Tiny bit of oxidative funk in the end - perhaps a bottle issue. Long. (243 views) | | | Tasted by vvWine.ch on 3/1/2024 & rated 98 points: (Verkostet aus der Normalflasche (75cl) im Rahmen der C9dP Probe von Peter Buser) Die Nase zeigt Heu, trockene Wiese, Stroh, Leder, Waldboden, Pilze, Trockenblumen, unglaublich expressiv und gleichzeitig subtil und tiefgründig, ein Gedicht, ein Schnüffelwein. Im Gaumen straff, gradlinig und enorm frisch, das hat Rasse, Eleganz, Dichte und doch eine ausgezeichnete Finesse, hier ist alles an seinem Platz, ein Tänzerwein, finessenreich, langanhaltend, frisch, feinwürzig und sehr lang. Eine Grazie. Grosses Kino. 98 vvPunkte (487 views) | | | Tasted by valedeniro on 6/2/2023 & rated 100 points: A spectacular bottle.Gorgeous,complex nose displaying a compelling mix of rich ripe dark berries,plums,smoked meats,garrigue,spices,hints of tar and iron .... Big,rich,creamy and luscious,there is such a wonderful purity of fruit in this wine.The palate is very powerful and refined,complex and harmonious,with a miraculous sense of lightness despite its insane concentration.So great,this is mind-boggling. (3578 views) | | | Tasted by kr522 on 3/7/2023 & rated 95 points: layers of fruit give this wine an opulence, and the richness is well balanced with acidity to keep a lighter frame on it …it was hard to put the glass down. I would like a little more exotic character like licorice and spice that can come from aged grenache….and was more apparent in some CDPs we had alongside this (1520 views) | | | Tasted by ricknat1 on 1/12/2023 & rated 100 points: i have to agree with jeff Leve in that this is the best Châteauneuf-du-Pape i have ever had. big, strong and vibrant from the first taste. we decanted for 3-4 hours and it was so big and rich without being overly sweet. Tremendously dense, yet perfectly balanced. although this is not cheap, compared to similar experiences in other regions, its a bargain (1568 views) | | | Tasted by Jeff Leve on 8/10/2022 & rated 100 points: A candidate for the Chateauneuf du Pape Hall of Fame, this wine is off the charts! Rich, long, concentrated, powerful, and refined, with a vibrancy and energy to the wealth of fruit that provides the perfect backdrop for this gem. There is an incredible mouthfeel that coats your palate with layers of spicy fruit, leaving with suggestions of cherries, peppery spices, walnuts, black tea, green olives, and kirsch that hold on for at least 60 seconds! This is just entering its prime-time drinking window. Drink from 2022-2045. (4219 views) | | | Tasted by Lord of the Bottles on 8/7/2022 & rated 96 points: Ethereal. Candied red and black fruit, almost Burgundy like. Super long finish, maybe 30 seconds. Leather nose, not barnyard. Small glass but easily one of the best Rhones I’ve ever drank. (2195 views) | | | Tasted by Topper on 2/5/2022 & rated 95 points: ome find this too rich and party but not this bottle. Fruit-forwardwith spick and complexity. The grenache brings ripe cherry fruit andante the hints of licorice and pepper add interest. Well made and very ready to drink, even from the magnum. Might have show even better ifnott served in the same flight with a 90 Chave Hermitage. (2233 views) | | | Tasted by GTYellowJackets on 12/23/2021 & rated 97 points: Tasted at Rick and Janice (1933 views) | | | Tasted by MC2 Wines on 12/11/2021: Q4 2021 Wine Club: The Return with Aged Rhone (Our apt): Wine #5: Clear winner of the evening for the group. It is drinking really well. Some good red fruits. Younger in style to me. It was decanted and the decanter went quickly (I think first wine to be finished). The only year with Hommage where it’s Grenache dominated. Just a hint of funkiness to it. (17 pennies) (2329 views) | | | Tasted by Jeff Leve on 6/7/2021 & rated 100 points: All the world's great wines share one commonality, it takes no time to recognize it's a rockstar. One sniff and sip of this stunner, and I knew this was an insane bottle. With its incredible depth of flavor, concentration, and complexity, the spicy, mouthcoating fruit, with its meaty personality made you take a second sip and sniff. Rich, palate-staining and yet light on its feet, the wine holds on your palate for over 60 seconds as it builds in intensity. With 60 minutes of air, the bottle kept getting better for the next few hours. It might have gone on longer, but we finished the bottle by that point. This is better than the 1989 or 1990, and it sells for a lot less money. (5294 views) | | | Tasted by Vini Ciclismo on 10/4/2020 & rated 97 points: Deep burgundy red, dark core, light brick rim.
Rich, ripe, dark berries, iron filings and tar, fragrant and balanced.
Silky smooth, balanced and very long, goes forever. Plump dark fruits, licorice, tar, plums, ink, garrigue, hints of iron, so rounded, super fine tannins. Perfectly integrated dark berries, tar spice and dried herbs. Spectacular. (2999 views) | | | Tasted by Cailles on 3/20/2020 & rated 94 points: I have very mixed feeling about this wine. In the best moments it shined bright with its incredibly delicate structure and fresh, pure fruit and a high complexity (96-97 points) but then there were other phases where the wine showed the side of Chateauneuf-du-Pape I don‘t like at all with port-like ripeness and a bit too much of everything (92). I get the feeling that with more air or better 10 more years in the cellar, the wine will further come together. All the stuffing and the structure will certainly allow for further ageing.
TN: As described above, this wine had two side with porty fruit, high ripeness overpowering the many nuances underneath on the one hand, and the ripe but fresh red and dark red fruit, soft, delicate, intense and pure with cola, herbs, leather, meaty notes and spices. The structure is close to perfection with ultra-fine tannins and a good freshness.
Decanting: Not decanted, I would give it at least 4-5 hours. Better just wait a few years. (3622 views) | | | Tasted by sirpat00 on 2/21/2020: Tasted blind. Port-like and liqueur-like nose with raisiny red berry fruit. Optically a slightly milky appearance. However, soft and velvety on the palate, appearing quite a bit younger than on the nose. I can't help but think that this was an off-bottle (hence no score), although the rest of the crew (3 others) didn't think so. Having said that, I haven't been able to befriend this wine when more than 10 years old. Wasn't a big fan of 2004 or 2007 and 1999 was already too dusty, in my view. (3148 views) | | | Tasted by Jeff Leve on 7/17/2019 & rated 99 points: Stunning in every sense of the word, this has everything you need in a great wine. There is depth, complexity, incredible levels of concentration, ripe fruit galore and a finish that doesn't quit. Powerful, spicy and attention-seeking, give this some air or a few more years and drink over the next 2-3 decades! (4801 views) | | | Tasted by Nanda on 4/23/2019 & rated 93 points: A delicious CdP with so much stuffing and depth, but not overdone or candied as many large-scale CdPs come across to me. This had terrific depth and layering, with spice, herb and leather. Long, driving finish. (3343 views) | | | Tasted by salil on 4/23/2019 & rated 95 points: Dinner at Nico Osteria: My first experience with the Hommage bottling, and this absolutely lives up to the hype. Packed with a core of red and dark fruited flavours, framed by savoury meatiness, (clean) earth, and other savoury, umami-like notes without any of the dirty funkiness I've sometimes found in older Beaucastel. It still feels very youthful with a spine of grainy tannin and bright acids, and the density and structure here suggest it has a lot of time ahead. But it's damn delicious now, and a real joy to sit and have with dinner. (3189 views) | | | Tasted by acyso on 4/23/2019 & rated 95 points: Dinner at Nico Osteria (Chicago, IL): Yes, this is what CdP should taste like. It's always a damn shame I have to go to this level to find CdP that I genuinely like, but them's the breaks. Meaty, earthy, and funky, but in a fairly restrained way -- like a feral beast that has been domesticated. The fruit is intense and powerful here, and the warmth of the vintage shows, though the alcohol is still held very much in check. There's some woolly qualities on the palate, but also some earthy tones. Clean -- no brett here! Heady, rich, and powerful, this is exactly what it ought to be. (3355 views) | | | Tasted by Papies on 11/17/2018 & rated 93 points: From Paris with Love, 2018 Edition; 11/16/2018-11/18/2018 (Paris (Girafe, La Tour D'Argent & Epicure)): Sourced from the excellent cellar of La Tour D'Argent, Paris and thus we are pretty sure it's a solid bottle. We chose to decant to help it develop but really it did not even after a few hours.
Maybe it is because it was eclipsed by the wines we had with it ( Chave 90 & Guigal Landonne 91 , Papies 99 & 96) but it never showed up to the party and barring the dense rich core of dark fruit, lacked an expressive side and really the complexity and flair we would have expected from it given vintage and given how superb the 2000 was when we tried it.
Very much alive, lots of dark fruits, lightly overdone on the richness and almost feels like it tried too much in its youth and maybe lost the battle with the ripeness ( much like beaucastel did with their 98 CDP). Good wine but not Hommage level. 93 (3741 views) | | | Tasted by TongF on 4/17/2018 & rated 96 points: Very close at beginning. I had to pour out in decanter and gave it more than 2.5 hrs, very floral, mineral, rocks, pretty fruit, medium body, felt like a burgundy style and very silky in the mouth, love it! Looking forward the next decade. (4080 views) | | | Tasted by la turque on 3/9/2018 & rated 98 points: Almost perfect, and squarely in its drinking window. Gave this an hour in the decanter. The aroma could be enjoyed from a couple of feet away. Sexy aromas of raspberries, red fruits, umami, forest floor and perfume. Silky on the palate with impeccable balance, and a finish that lasted forever. A big wine, yet light on its feet. The only slight detractor was a slight bitterness on the finish, but that’s dancing on the end of a pin. (4134 views) | | | Tasted by Jeff Leve on 12/15/2017 & rated 100 points: Alternating between wild, animalistic and regal, this is one of the great wine tasting experiences of my life. Fresh, lively and spicy, the fruit coats your palate with the essence of blackberry and kirsch liqueur. Intense, but perfectly in balance, the wine feels like, thick velvet, with a wild edge, giving you a blend of elegance and sauvage sensations. This is a true legend of Chateaunaeuf du Pape. (6972 views) | | | Tasted by europat55 on 11/18/2017 & rated 97 points: Nose: A+ Palate: A
My #1, Group's #3 (76 pts). Tasted blind. (4477 views) | | | Tasted by Bordeaux_Jon on 11/18/2017 & rated 87 points: Tasted blind in a Rhône tasting. My 9/10. A overly bretty hot mess. This will hopefully be my last Beaucastel ever. The wine was overly intense, burning my mouth with loads of umami but little else. I couldn’t get past the Brett and stink to see the complexity this wine ought to have for $600. A waste indeed. Others liked it more, as this group is full of Brett-o-philes but in my opinion, caveat emptor! You could get this effect at a much cheaper price point by adding vodka to a cheap old bretty CdP. (3992 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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Vintage Tastings, A Double Dose of Angry Man Action (3/7/2005)
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| Château de Beaucastel Producer website - Read more about Beaucastel
| An interesting podcast interview with Marc Perrin |
The Wine Doctor on Chateau Beaucastel |
Perrin & Fils Blog on Chateau BeaucastelRed Rhone Blend Read about the different grapes used to produce red and white Rhone wines
On CellarTracker, Red Rhone Blend is the term for a wine consisting of two or more of the traditional 13 Southern Rhone grape varieties. Typically it's the Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre or Cinsault grapes, but can also contain the Muscardin, Counoise, Clairette, Bourboulenc, Picpoul, Roussanne, Terret Noir, Picardan or Vaccarese grapes.
A 'food' wine. Lacking pretension and intended for local consumption with local cuisine. Lacks the 'high' notes on a Bordeaux, more earthy and sharper so often a better partner to meat dishes with a sauce. France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comRhône Guide to the wines, wineries and appellations in the Rhone Valley The Rhône Valley/Le Vins de la Vallée du Rhône (Comité Interprofession des vins AOC Côtes et vallée du Rhône)
### Wine Scholar Guild's Rhône valley vintage charts & ratings ###Southern Rhône Guide to the wines, wineries and appellations in the Southern Rhone Valley
Châteauneuf-du-Pape Châteauneuf-du-Pape Appellation - Read more about Chateauneuf du Pape
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"As I have written many times in the past, the sweet spot for drinking Châteauneuf du Papes is usually the first 5-6 years after the vintage. Then they seem to go through an adolescent, awkward, and sometimes dormant stage, only to re-emerge around year 10-12, where the majority of wines are often fully mature. The best of them will continue to hold on to life (but rarely improving) beyond 15-20 years. It is only the exceptional Châteauneuf du Papes that will evolve for 20-25+ years, and those are indeed a rarity. However, things may be improving dramatically in terms of the longevity of Châteauneuf du Pape, although Grenache-dominated wines, the vast majority of wines produced in the appellation, are wines that do not have the polyphenol (extract and tannin) content of top Cabernet Sauvignons, Merlots, or Syrah-based wines. Nevertheless, the younger generation in Châteauneuf du Pape has taken seriously the farming in the vineyards. There are more organic and biodynamically run vineyards here than in any other appellation of France. The yields, which were already low, are even lower today (20-35 hectoliters per hectare), and of course, the proliferation of top luxury and/or old-vine cuvées gives a significant boost to the number of wines that will evolve past 25 or 30 years. The advantage of these wines is their broad window of drinkability." - Robert Parker
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